"I heard words and words full of holes aching."

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Source : Robert Creeley (1982). “The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975”, p.283, Univ of California Press

Robert Creeley

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“I have friends who hide in their bedroom for three days every time they have another birthday. That's what brings the wrinkles! I didn't care when I turned 30 or 40 or 50.”
“I think people who go to a psychiatrist ought to have their heads examined.”
“No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one age and boasts of the next. Dante is worshipped at that grave to which he was hurried by persecution. Milton, in his own day, was "Mr. Milton, the blind adder, that spit his venom on the king's person"; and soon after, "the mighty orb of song." These absurd transitions from hatred to apotheosis, this recognition just at the moment when it becomes a mockery, saddens all intellectual history.”

Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.4
“To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.”

Source : Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. November 02, 2012.
“In India everything has a use and a value.”
“The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.”
“No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words”
“Willpower is a myth. The problem with trying to use willpower to achieve and sustain a behavioral change is that it is fueled by emotion. And as we all know, our emotions are, at best, fickle. They come and go. When your emotions start running down -- and they will -- even your best-laid plans will fall flat.”

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